Gerd Hatje (14 April 1915 – 24 July 2007) was a German publisher.
The publishing house that he founded in 1945, named the Humanitas Verlag, renamed in 1947 as Verlag Gerd Hatje, is internationally known for contemporary art, photography and architecture.
[1] In November 1945, Hatje received a licence to found a publishing house from the American and the French military government, which he called Humanitas Verlag.
[1] He had contact with and was a friend of contemporary artists such as Hans Arp, Willi Baumeister, Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Georges Braque, Marcel Breuer, Marc Chagall, Christo, Le Corbusier, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Walter Gropius, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and James Stirling.
He collaborated with international publishers such as Harry N. Abrams and Thames and Hudson.